tail Archives - LinuxLinks

Almost everything that happens on a Linux system is logged in some way. We feature the finest open source console-based log file analyzers.

This article spotlights alternative tools to the command-line tail utility.

btail provides an interactive terminal viewer for live log files with searching, syntax highlighting, line wrapping and navigation.

inotail follows growing files using Linux inotify events, with line and byte selection plus support for watching multiple files.

colortail displays file updates with configurable colours and regular expressions to highlight important log messages in the terminal.

ptail displays a fixed number of recent output lines from running commands or pipelines to keep verbose terminal output manageable.

retail extends tail with regular-expression start and stop conditions for inspecting log files, pipelines and streaming text.

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